December 12, 2025 – Helsinki, Finland
Inven has reached 1,000 customers in just three years. The milestone reflects growing adoption among M&A teams looking for faster, more intelligent ways to find and analyze private companies across global markets.
The company now employs more than 80 developers, engineers, and commercial professionals focused on transforming how private companies are found and understood.
From manual sourcing to AI-native workflows
Inven was born out of the founders’ frustration with manual deal sourcing: days spent digging through fragmented data, Googling, and working through PDFs line by line to build lists that only partially matched the investment thesis.
Today, Inven combines proprietary data on more than 21 million companies with AI-powered search, intent signals, and collaboration workflows. The platform enables M&A teams to move from manual sourcing to continuous, AI-supported discovery aligned with how deal professionals evaluate companies in practice.
“Every M&A analyst will soon have an AI tool they rely on every day,” says Niilo Pirttijärvi, Co-Founder of Inven. “Reaching 1,000 customers this quickly is a clear signal that the industry is ready for AI-native infrastructure for sourcing and market intelligence.”
Building the default AI platform for deal sourcing and company research
Inven’s product, engineering, customer success, and commercial teams work closely together, shipping frequent product updates and refining search quality based on direct customer feedback. The company’s ambition is to become the default AI platform used by M&A teams to discover and understand companies.
Today, Inven is used by more than 1,000 customers worldwide to:
- Identify companies that precisely match an investment thesis
- Spot emerging verticals and cross-border opportunities
- Consolidate financial, ownership, people, and growth signals into a single view
- Move from thesis to outreach in minutes rather than days
The company views the 1,000-customer milestone as an early step in building long-term infrastructure for the global M&A market.
About Inven
Founded in 2022 by Niilo Pirttijärvi, Tommi Kupiainen, and Ekku Jokinen, Inven is an AI-native deal-sourcing platform designed for private market professionals. The platform combines proprietary data on more than 21 million companies with advanced algorithms to help M&A teams identify, analyze, and connect with relevant opportunities more efficiently.
Inven is trusted by over 1,000 private equity firms, investment banks, consulting firms, and venture capital teams worldwide.
